Everything in the house was in keeping with the character of the village.

But the kitchen! how shall I describe it?
The polished marble floor, the dressers with glass doors like a bookcase, to keep the least particle of dust from the bright-polished utensils of brass and copper.

The varnished mahogany handle of the brass spigot, lest the moisture of the hand in turning it should soil its polish, and, will you believe it, the very pothooks as well as the cranes (for there were two), in the fireplace were as bright as your scissors! "Broek is certainly a curiosity.

It is unique, but the impression left upon me is not, on the whole, agreeable.

I should not be contented to live there.